bookhobbit:

sometimes you just have to love a fictional asshole because you lack the ability to assert yourself and draw boundaries and defend yourself and be angry at things that hurt you and there’s a strange catharsis in seeing someone be really aggressive about that stuff and even though you have no desire to emulate that character for real because it would be unhealthy and unkind and you know that it’s just comforting to be able to explore a purely fictional space in which you can imagine doing those things freely and confidently without having to worry about whether you’re a bad person for having needs